me: this is a reeeeaaally good chapter and veeeeery sad...sooo...WARNING! REAAAAAALLY SAD CHAPTER! so...Im really sorry if this isnt how you wanted the story to go,...but too bad for you!Its my story, and I'll go what I want to, do what I want to!ooooh yaaa!woO0t!anway...take it away InuYasha!

InuYasha:cries...no way!this chapter is so mean to me!

me:sorry...well, since I was pretty harsh on Inu this chapy, I'll do the disclaimer...sooo...presenting...the one and only time I will ever do my own disclaimer...I DONT OWN INUYASHA! is shocked I actually said that myself

InuYasha:O-O...wow...O-O

Chapter 12

InuYasha knelt next to Kagome who was lying on the ground. "Kagome?" he said, looking down to see her frail, weak body. Her eyes were just barely open, and the part that was open was focused on the worried InuYasha looking down at her.

"Inu….Yasha." she whispered weakly, reaching an arm up and touching his silver hair.

"Kagome…what's wrong? Why are you so weak?" he asked in reply to her quiet, straining voice.

"I used….all my…strength to…kill Naraku…"

"Why! We could have found another way! We weren't that desperate. You didn't have to do something so…." But he paused, unable to call such a thing stupid.

"The…only way. Really!" she said this less weak, trying to get InuYasha less worried, but only making it worse.

"Fine. Well, we have to get you better. Where are you hurt?"

""I'm……..not hurt…..my strength….is in the arrow." She said quietly, pointing at the arrow that had killed Naraku and was still sticking out of him.

InuYasha grabbed the arrow and held it out to her. "You mean this?" he asked, examining it, but finding nothing special about it. It just looked like a regular old arrow.

"Yes….Is Naraku…….dead?"

"Ya….I still don't understand how that attack was any different from all the others."

"We needed all our energy…."

"Then why are you the only one that's weak!" he asked, now starting to get frustrated.

"Your tetsaiga's energy….regains faster…….than me."

"So…does that mean you'll be fine as long as you're left to regain your energy?"

"No. My energy…….is not with me at the moment….I sent it out…to collect something…." Her hand finally dropping as something flew into her palm. She held it out to InuYasha, "This…is for you." Kagome dropped the small pink ball into his hand.

"He looked down to find the Shikon no Tama in his hand. His eyes got wide and he looked back up to Kagome to ask how she had gotten it; but he never got an answer. Her eyes had finally closed, and InuYasha watched as her chest fell for the last time.

"Kagome? Kagome!" he yelled, trying not to believe what was happened. "I'm confused…how could this happen! Kagome…answer me! Say anything! Tell me to sit! Tell me that I'm an idiot! Please!" he said pleadingly. Then, he did what he hadn't done since he was a child; he cried big wet tears. He knelt there next to Kagome crying, not even knowing the reason he was crying.

Finally, he dried his face the best he could and whispered down at the dead Kagome, "I'd do anything to get you back. I'd give my own life up just to know one thing…" he paused, taking up all his courage to say one thing to the Kagome, who wasn't even able to hear him, "One thing I want to know….Did you love me as much as I did you!" he screamed, finally giving in to his emotions and letting more tears roll down his face.

Suddenly he heard a rustling behind him, and when he turned to see what it was, he saw Kikyo, standing limp against a tree. "She's dead, isn't she?" Kikyo asked, just as weakly as Kagome had talked before she fell limp.

"Yes. How do you know?"

"Its affecting me…she is my reincarnation after all. I can explain everything to you if you want…why she died….how she…got the Shikon jewel…everything." She went over to a boulder near the tree she had been leaning on and sat down.

"How would you know!" he felt angry for some reason he didn't know why.

"….because…I understand why and how everything has happened." She looked at InuYasha's expression and took it as a reply to tell him everything. "Fine….well, the only way to defeat Naraku was to combine energy between the two of you, or you wouldn't have had enough power. Your energy was from the Tetsaiga, so you weren't affected. Kagome, however, had her energy come from herself….her own spiritual powers. She had used every bit she could collect in her arrow….and made it leave her. She then had no energy to live off of." She concluded her explanation of one of InuYasha's questions. When se saw InuYasha had understood, she went on to answer the next question.

"She got the Shikon no tama by collecting the small bit of energy left to call upon all the shards that was owned between you and Naraku. All these shards evidently made up the entire jewel." She finished her explanation once again, and found InuYasha's expression once again, understanding it all.

"So….does that mean this is the full jewel? I can wish off it now?" he asked, surprised he finally held the jewel.

"Yes." she paused to look at InuYasha who was now staring down at the small pink jewel. "InuYasha? Thank you for destroying Naraku…now that he's gone…I shall die…once….and…for all." She whispered that last part as she fell to the ground, limp, and dead. She slowly disappeared, along with her soul collectors.

InuYasha sat in a daze, shocked by everything he had just been told, and end everything that had happened. He then looked down at the small glowing pink ball in his hand. "I can wish now, huh? Well I know exactly what to wish for." he smiled, closing his hand around the jewel.

Well...thats the ultra sad chapy!yup yup...thats the saddest the story will get, I do believe...or maybe not!mwahahahaha!lol...anyway...Im sorry to all the Kagome and Kikyo fans out there...but their dead!get over it!dont worry...It'll fix itself in the next chapy, but in the meantime, I'll work on the happy ending everyones working on, and you no critisize my writing!okay?okay!see you next chapy!